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by emptybits 8mo ago
Yes, that is the specific deterrence effect. The general deterrence effect we observe in society is that punishment of one person has an effect on others who observe it, making them more cautious and less likely to offend.
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by emptybits 8mo ago
I see. Thank you for sharing. Insurance here is mandatory here for all motorists. If you are hit by an underinsured driver, the government steps in and additional underinsured motorist protection (e.g. hit by an out of province/country
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by emptybits 8mo ago
Waymo hits you -> you seek relief from Waymo's insurance company. Waymo's insurance premium go up. Waymo can weather a LOT of that. Business is still good. Thus, poor financial feedback loop. No real skin in the game. John Sm
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by emptybits 8mo ago
I had to read what Berners-Lee's solution "Solid Protocol" was all about. https://solidproject.org/ "Solid is a file system for the Web ... Solid lets you put documents into an online file system where y
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Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a battle for the soul of the internet(theguardian.com)
24 points by emptybits 8mo ago|3 comments
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by emptybits 8mo ago
Lol, I see the image fine but if I click the red "Buy Now" button, I get a 404. Fortunately, I type this, sitting in my wonderful 15 year old Embody chair so I don't actually need to buy now. Everyone is different and I never
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by emptybits 8mo ago
These statements are pretty well supported. Re/ deporting 100 million Americans: The actual number would be 53 million and I'll explain. The USA Department of Homeland Security made an official statement two weeks ago which includ
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by emptybits 8mo ago
http://archive.today/2026.01.15-151504/https://www.economist...
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Why Go Is Going Nowhere(economist.com)
4 points by emptybits 8mo ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Thanks for the links but can you share evidence for the "public IP address" claim? Each time I've read this concept (intriguing! possible!), I search for evidence and I can't find any. The MIC and yellow dots have been s
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Thank you for this really thoughtful answer. I'm going to keep using Seek because, as you say, it's streamlined for those of us who want to help researchers with data but also just want a simple answer. I have PictureThis also, bu
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Yes, he does. And I will. But he also suggests that users organize and that cessation of data or money or "withdrawing your data would be a reasonable form of protest".
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by emptybits 9mo ago
And before the wrong Scala crowd gets too excited, the Scala referred to is the musical tuning software from 1985 https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ (Not the programming language from 2004.)
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Enthusiastic Seek-using family here. It works so well for our very simple needs that I admit to never fully looking into iNaturalist's use of data or my ability to export or move my observations elsewhere. I've always fed our obse
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Looks promising. Does it support multi-snout gestures and standard boop-boop protocols?
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Maybe what I need is an AI agent to consume AI generated content on my behalf. Then I can continue with my strong preference to direct my time and attention toward content generated, mostly, by my fellow humans.
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by emptybits 9mo ago
> But disconnected events can be seen in different orders depending on speed of observer. What are "disconnected events"? In a subtle but still real sense, are not all events causally linked? e.g. gravitationally, magnetically,
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Wild. My layperson mind goes to a simple example, which may or may not be possible, but please tell me if this is the gist: Alice and Bob, in different reference frames, both witness events C and D occurring. Alice says C happened before D.
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Normally I would nod at the title. Having lived it. But I just watched/listened to a Richard Feynmann talk on the nature of time and clocks and the futility of "synchronizing" clocks. So I'm chuckling a bit. In the gener
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by emptybits 9mo ago
Yes! Linus must really burn himself up, conceiving and executing masterworks like this! But saying "0 regrets" hopefully means he hasn't lost motivation for his next crazy project!
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by emptybits 10mo ago
I really appreciated the explanation of what proteins are, in simple terms. I assume (?) it's accurate enough for a layperson. And I do love the optimism. But then you must admit this reads like a B-movie intro: Then AI compani
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by emptybits 10mo ago
There wasn't easy hover text or other way to reveal what's coming "this month" on their advent calendar. So spoilers for the impatient: 1 William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying 2 Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons
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by emptybits 10mo ago
A generation of programmers might disagree with you. Multiplication instructions and hash tables (!) are easily worked around, as evidenced by decades of art and innovation programmed on that "terrible" CPU. There are still 6502 p
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by emptybits 10mo ago
If you’re “into” de Bruijn numerals or Project Euler then you might be familiar with this little treat: https://projecteuler.net/problem=941 Otherwise, have a go and don’t spoil it! (I have failed thus far.)
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by emptybits 11mo ago
In 2019, Musk asked for deposits as he told the world "We created an exoskeleton ... the body and bed on a traditional body-on-frame design don’t do anything useful. They’re dead weight." MotorTrend describes Tesla's failure
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by emptybits 11mo ago
We sure do. And it may have been. I was too patient and also morbidly curious how and when Tesla would resolve it.
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by emptybits 11mo ago
Ha, I didn’t even mention that around the same time, to hedge my bets, I also had a deposit on an F-150 Lightning and had the same easy experience with a Ford refund as you did. Click.
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by emptybits 11mo ago
I dodged a bullet. I bought into the original heavy stainless steel exoskeleton concept, which they never delivered on. So they had my deposit. Then it took me a year and a half (!!) to get my deposit back from time of request, a dozen docu
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by emptybits 11mo ago
While Apple has some admirable history in standing up to government information requests[1], am I alone in wondering now if Apple has started to voluntarily align itself with the current administration? For example, Apple is helping to buil
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Al Zimmermann is launching a new contest 2025-11-22(azspcs.com)
1 points by emptybits 11mo ago|0 comments

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